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Champalou 2024 Vouvray Sec
Dry chenin from Vouvray's tuffeau cliffs — a wine for the inquisitive, who lean in, sip slowly and consider complexity a feature not a flaw.
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- Domaine Champalou
- Vouvray, Loire Valley, France
- White
- Chenin Blanc
- Cork
- 7-13°C
- Now – 2032
Depth, texture, balance — quince, honeysuckle, chalky tension.
Serve & pair
Spring: Roast Chicken with spring veggies, Blanquette de veau Summer:Grilled sea bass, sashimi, sushi and grilled white meat Fall: Mushroom risotto, butternut squash soup, turkey Winter: Baked brie with caramelized onions, pork with fruit sauce, chicken in a cream sauce
How it was made
This wine is not made in the cellar. It's made by it. The cellar is the same stone it's grown in. Vines growing on clay over tuffeau. A cellar carved in tuffeau. Grapes are harvested early in the morning, fermented at low temperature in stainless tank then aged on fine lees.
Producer
In the Champalou family, they have been winemakers for 13 generations on the Cathrine's side and 7 generations on Didier's side. It is therefore the farmer's blood that flows through their veins because, while being winemakers, they are above all farmers. Their daughter Céline now runs one of the appellations most beloved estates, guided by history, nature and "the rock," the soils of tuffeau limestone.